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Tag : Poverty

Paul Carter, Wednesday, 27th June 2018 - A breakthrough could be looming in the campaign to increase the Newstart allowance with the release of a rousing jingle sung by a choir of welfare recipients – think Choir of…

Wendy Williams, Wednesday, 21st June 2017 - A global not for profit dedicated to fighting poverty has launched The Bottom 100, a list of the world’s poorest individuals who are struggling at the other end of “rich lists”.…

Wendy Williams, Monday, 8th May 2017 - Sashenka Worsman is the CEO of Oaktree, one of Australia’s largest youth-run organisations, which works toward ending poverty. She is this week’s Changemaker.Worsman grew…

Wendy Williams, Friday, 10th June 2016 - A new report is calling for governments to set a clear national agenda for children as it claims Australia’s youngest generation is the most vulnerable.The report, from the Australian…

Lina Caneva, Wednesday, 25th May 2016 -
A new Salvation Army report revealed “disturbing new statistics on the level of poverty in Australia”, showing that some disadvantaged Australians are living on just $17 a day.…

Lina Caneva, Monday, 7th March 2016 -
A new Not for Profit report has revealed that three in 10 women aged over 60 live in permanent income poverty compared to just 27 per cent of single older men.
The report commissioned…

Xavier Smerdon, Monday, 12th October 2015 -
The peak welfare bodies across Australia have called for a national plan to tackle growing poverty in Australia, including setting targets to ensure the incomes of the lowest earners…

Xavier Smerdon, Thursday, 23rd July 2015 - New insights into ‘disadvantage’ underpin the need to focus policies and services on the places and groups where social exclusion is concentrated, writes Francisco Azipitarte…

Xavier Smerdon, Tuesday, 23rd June 2015 -
Despite significant achievements, millions of children are still living in poverty, dying before they turn five, being denied schooling and suffer chronic malnutrition, according…

Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 28th April 2015 -
Almost a quarter of people who lifted themselves out of poverty are poor again just one or two years later, according to a study by welfare Not for Profit, the Brotherhood of St Laurence.…

Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 21st April 2015 -
More than a million Aussies are living in poverty according to a new report by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, CEDA, which has described the findings as a “disgrace”.…

Lina Caneva, Thursday, 22nd January 2015 -
Homelessness services in Victoria have seen a 30 per cent increase in demand over the last year, according to new figures.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) released…